I'm only interested in poetry.

Potential," I said, "doesn't mean a thing. You've got to do it. Almost every baby in a crib has more potential than I have.

I'll get back to the whores and the horses and the booze, while there's time.

When you clean up a city, you destroy it.

That the young rich smell the stink of the poor and learn to find it a bit amusing. They had to laugh, otherwise it would be too terrifying.

that your power of command with simple language was one of the magnificent things of our century. (from the poem: result)

How are his poems?" "He's not as good as he thinks he is, but then most of us feel that way.